With 91190.0 shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 0.16 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Property & Casualty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $118.72 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $115.92. The 52-week range on HCI shows that it touched its highest point at $124.00 and its lowest point at $81.35 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $141.25. With its current market cap of 1.23 billion, HCI has annualized dividend of $1.60 while the current yield stands at 1.37%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.09.
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Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of HCI was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 8.06%, but this was up by 0.44% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 22.79% while six-month performance rose 19.59%. The stock gained 36.10% in the past year, while it has gained 33.54% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for HCI yields 11.96 with Next year EPS estimates of 12.90. For the next quarter, that number is -3.19. This implies an EPS growth rate of -24.63% for this year and 130.91% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 25.00% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 26.67%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 9.74 million HCI shares are outstanding with a float of 8.24 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-11-15, short shares totaled 1.26 million, which was 1198.9999599999999 higher than short shares on 1728950400. In addition to Mr. Pareshbhai Suryakant Patel as the firm’s Founder, Chairman, President & CEO, Mr. Gregory Politis serves as its Co-Founder & Lead Independent Director.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.82133 of HCI’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for HCI since 2 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With HCI analysts setting a high price target of 150.0 and a low target of 120.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 138.75. Based on these targets, HCI could surge 28.52% to reach the target high and rise by 2.82% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 18.88% from current levels.
Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $6.50235 being high and $4.86679 being low. For HCI, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $5.58484. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $3.54. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $4.28 and the low estimate is $3.54. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $3.84.
